Abstract
This my new contribution - on the wake of my recent studies on the milesian school, on Xenophanes, on Heraclitus, on Pithagorics and on Plato - aims to achieve three interesting historiographic objectives, neglected by the modern doctrine: a] to demonstrate - through close examination of the development of the Hellenic institutions - how, in the history of marginal Greece one must recognise an irrefutable feedback effect between the social context (colonization of Southern Italy) and the cultural context (the writings of Eleatics); b] to analyze the evolution of the concept of dike in the organization of the eleatic doctrine of kosmos; c] to show how Parmenides, Zeno and Melissus, against all form of internal or external stasis, defended the aristocratic ideal of continuity, embodied in the values of civic cohesion and constitutional stability, to the statement of an harmonious and united polis.
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